From Data Protection to Data Sovereignty

A multidimensional governance approach for shaping informational freedom in the ‘onlife’-era

Abstract

Digitalisation carries the dangerous potential to constrict our exercise of freedom and self-determination. Most worryingly, this process is taking place in small steps and a point of no return might be reached in the not too distant future. In order to defend our individual self-determination, we thus need to make the right to informational self-determination behind traditional data protection weatherproof for the age of Big Data, AI and machine learning.